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provocation

In law, the partial defence that the accused carried out a murder in the heat of anger after being provoked to lose their self-control. Such a defence, if successful, reduces the charge in English law to manslaughter. However, the defence has been criticized as an acceptance of male violence (since the provoked is usually male) and also as justifying an outmoded desire for retaliation that is inappropriate in modern society.



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Such an extreme, violent reaction is out of place in a modern world and can't be justified by references to exploitation or incitation.
Cartoons, commentary, and restraint by Lipman, Mel / The Humanist
Couples could be separated, according to canon law, on seven conditions: mutual decision to take vows; heresy of one of the spouses; incitation to mortal sin; physical and verbal abuse; a vow to leave for the Holy Land on crusade; the danger of contracting a contagious disease; and adultery.
The perils of patriarchy by Hanlon, Gregory / Journal of Social History
Ortega was later to criticize Jean-Paul Sartre's engagement as "nihilistic" and an incitation to mindless activism, but it is only his enormous self-confidence that prevents him seeing that he does no better when he cheers on his faceless elites.
Ortega and the myth of the mass by McInnes, Neil / The National Interest
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